Sunshine & Puppies & Rallying

Last month was rough, which is why I’ve been pretty bad about posting. On top of draining family complications, I had a biopsy last week. A thing I thought was a freckle showed up on my leg about 4 years ago & recently started looking pretty scary. It was a good size spot on my leg that was a dark black-purple. While it fell within the ABCDE guidelines, I still went to the doctor.

Luckily, it is not cancerous. Both my primary care doctor & the dermatologist agree that the damned spot is a blood vessel or a vascular oddity. But I must admit that only after they cut the little patch out of my skin, I let myself cry. Once it was all over, I finally realized just how scared I had been despite all of the inappropriate jokes my husband & I had told each other in the weeks leading up to the check-up. For example, if they had to amputate my leg, I would be a better mom to our three-legged cat or I could be like Lance Armstrong & bike the cancer off.

So it’s only been in the last few days that I’ve gotten myself together. I thought I would share some of the things that have made me happy in the last few weeks.

My upcoming creative nonfiction seminar at WriterHouse in Charlottesville. Looking forward to being part of a writing group again. Also, the session.org for keeping me rich in fiddle tunes to learn & sad songs to indulge myself in playing.